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Live Healthy Spartanburg presents 2024 health needs assessment, cites 17-year life-expectancy gap
Summary
Jalisa Jordan of Live Healthy Spartanburg presented the coalition's 2024 Community Health Needs Assessment, highlighting a 17-year life-expectancy gap across neighborhoods, roughly 40,000 uninsured residents, rising overdose deaths and priority areas for county-city collaboration; the full report is due early next year.
Jalisa Jordan, coalition manager for Live Healthy Spartanburg, told the city council on Nov. 10 that the coalition's 2024 Community Health Needs Assessment found striking disparities in health across Spartanburg County, including what Jordan described as "a 17 year life expectancy gap" between nearby neighborhoods.
The assessment, produced every three years, combines surveys and community conversations with public data. Jordan said about 40,000 county residents lack health insurance and that roughly 35 percent of adults meet the assessment's criteria for obesity. Jordan also cited a roughly 13 percent food insecurity rate, and said overdose deaths in the county have risen about 40 percent since 2021, with 153 overdose deaths recorded in 2022.
"This is our life expectancy here in Spartanburg County," Jordan said during the presentation, linking differences in outcomes to education, economic opportunity and other social determinants of health. She identified the coalition's priority areas as access to care, behavioral health, healthy eating and active living, and resilient children and families, and said the coalition will use a results-based accountability framework to measure progress.
Council members asked whether the CHNA data are available at city or census-tract levels. Jordan said the report's published data are at the county level but staff can produce census-tract breakdowns for specified outcomes and offered to provide those disaggregations on request and to host "data walks" with epidemiologists so council and staff can better interpret the findings.
Jordan also said Live Healthy Spartanburg has begun sharing the CHNA at town-hall meetings and with partner organizations and will post the full report at the start of the year. "We will have it released at the top of the year where you guys can really deep dive into those strategies that we've outlined," Jordan said.
The presentation concluded with an invitation to the city to align its strategy with coalition priorities and with an offer to supply census-tract-level indicators to help inform policy decisions.
Next steps: Live Healthy Spartanburg will release the full 2024 CHNA early in the year and continue community outreach; council members requested follow-up data broken out by census tract for policy planning.
